Q is a hugely ambitious and brilliantly achieved novel set in the chaos of Reformation Europe. In this age devastated by wars of religion, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and south to Venice, our hero, an Anabaptist who travels under many names, and his enemy, Q, a papal informer and heretic hunter, play a game in which no moves are forbidden. What begins as a struggle to reveal each other’s identity eventually becomes part of a much greater mission: to destroy and achieve domination over each other.Part thriller, part novel of ideas, Q is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised.
ISBN: 0151010633
Publisher: HARCOURT
Subtitle: A NOVEL BY LUTHER BLISSETT
Author: SHAUN WHITESIDE

ISBN: 9780156033428
Publisher: HARCOURT
Subtitle: TALES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Author: JOYCE CAROL OATES